Gabriele de Seta

Postdoctoral Fellow

Academic article

Show author(s) (2022). Representations of Machine Vision Technologies in Artworks, Games and Narratives: Documentation of a Dataset. Data in Brief.

Show author(s) (2021). Tres mentiras de la etnografía digital. Revista SOMEPSO. 110-132.
Show author(s) (2021). Sinofuturism(s). Verge: Studies in Global Asias. 74-80.
Show author(s) (2021). Scaling the scene: Experimental music in Taiwan. Cultural Studies. 162-182.
Show author(s) (2021). Introduction: ASIA.LIVE: Inaugurating livestream studies in Asia. Asiascape: Digital Asia. 5-14.
Show author(s) (2021). Huanlian, or changing faces: Deepfakes on Chinese digital media platforms. Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
Show author(s) (2021). Gateways, sieves and domes: On the infrastructural topology of the Chinese stack. International Journal of Communication. 2669-2692.

Show author(s) (2020). Three lies of digital ethnography. Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR). 77-97.
Show author(s) (2020). Sociality, circulation, transaction: WeChat's infrastructural affordances . Verge: Studies in Global Asias. 65-82.
Show author(s) (2020). Private messages from the field: Confessions on digital ethnography and its discomforts. Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR). 1-19.
Show author(s) (2020). Must Zhongzheng fall? Varied responses to memorial statues of Taiwan’s former dictator. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action. 627-641.

Lecture

Show author(s) (2022). Sociotechnical imaginaries of artifice & intelligence.
Show author(s) (2022). On infrastructural abstraction: Models, parameters, algorithms.
Show author(s) (2022). Imaginaries of artificial intelligence and machine vision in China.
Show author(s) (2022). Imagi(ni)ng machine vision: An industry walkthrough.

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2022). “Since I can’t go to China”: A digital ethnography primer.
Show author(s) (2022). Imagining machine vision: Aesthetics of computational sensing from the Chinese AI industry.
Show author(s) (2022). From 'thousand-mile lenses' to 'super VR invincible infrared X-ray glasses': Machine vision in Chinese science fiction.
Show author(s) (2022). Deepfaking myself as a digital ethnographic method.
Show author(s) (2022). China’s machine vision vernaculars.
Show author(s) (2022). A ‘next-generation internet’: How Chinese tech companies imagine the metaverse.

Show author(s) (2021). Wisdom + ability: on Chinese discourses around artificial intelligence, algorithms, and "smart" technologies.
Show author(s) (2021). Vernacular obfuscation.
Show author(s) (2021). The circulation and governance of deepfakes in China.
Show author(s) (2021). Situating sinofuturism: Techno-orientalist fantasies, digital arms races, and chronopolitical othering.
Show author(s) (2021). Matrix barcodes, swapped faces and thousand-mile eyes: Machine vision in Chinese everyday life.
Show author(s) (2021). Machine vision in Chinese everyday life.
Show author(s) (2021). Ethnography, postdigital: Platforms, algorithms, and automation.
Show author(s) (2021). Ethnographic approaches to digital folklore.
Show author(s) (2021). Ethnographic approaches to digital folklore.
Show author(s) (2021). Apertures #5: Alexa Hagerty, Shazeda Ahmed & Vidushi Marda.
Show author(s) (2021). Apertures #2: Paola Voci & Yiyi Yin.
Show author(s) (2021). Apertures #1: Ari Larissa Heinrich & Dino Ge Zhang.

Show author(s) (2020). Situating data cultures and infrastructures: André Brock, Gabriele de Seta and Jill Walker Rettberg.
Show author(s) (2020). Gateways, sieves, and domes: On the infrastructural topology of the Chinese stack.

Book review

Show author(s) (2021). Blockchain chicken farm: And other stories of tech in China’s countryside, by Xiaowei Wang (Book review). Asiascape: Digital Asia. 265-269.

Show author(s) (2020). Zoning China: Online Video, Popular Culture, and the State, by Luzhou Li. Asiascape: Digital Asia. 235-238.
Show author(s) (2020). Information fantasies: Precarious mediation in postsocialist China, by Xiao Liu. Asiascape: Digital Asia. 145-148.
Show author(s) (2020). Digital China’s informal circuits: Platforms, labour and governance, by Elaine Jing Zhao. China Information. 294-295.
Show author(s) (2020). Ambient media: Japanese atmospheres of self, by Paul Roquet (Book review). International Journal of Communication. 1753-1755.